Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-07-27

ed his gaze on the host Of worshipers
before him. in the vain hope Of dis.
covering perhaps a human being as
wretched as himself, than the voice
with the same pitiless injunction fell in
exorably on his ear: p /.
''On! on! on!' T.. - zss
He staggered forward to obey, just
as the crowd Of Moslems rose to leave.
the sacred building. They all made
for the doorway so effectively that Alias
verus was pushed to the wall and un-
able to reach the ''hall of shoes'' until
well nigh everyone had got out before
him. When he did manage to quit the
sanctuary he sought for his Undiscovered,
blood-stained sandals. They were gone.
First his eye squinted awfully round.
the place; then it twinkled with delight
on beholding q tall pair of boots, sump-
tuously lined with some soft material,
which, like Castor and Pollux, uprose
in dreary, dual grandeur in a corner
OF the hall. He slipped them on and
made off. Never before, throughout
his checkered career, had he met with
such comfortable pair of boots. They
were large and well-furred throughout.
AS soon as he reached the doorway, two
eunuchs caugh hold of him by the arms
and legs, and carefully lifted him
into well-stuffed, sweet -scented, silk
lined and cosy sedan chair, which at
once conveyed its precious burden to-
wards the beautiful quarter of Galata,
in the suburbs of Constantinople.
The storm had blown over, and the
sun came out again, full of serene glo-
ry.
An hour after Ahasverus found him
self before well-dressed table inside
an elegant villa, with three lovely
creatures who ministered to his wants
and formed his harem. The table
literally gave way beneath the load of
fruit and cakes and viands which it
bore.
On arriving at the villa the eunuchs
had plunged Ahasverus into a delight
fully cool bath; the barber had combed
his hair and cut off his long white
beard; while a caftan of satin took the
place of his former rags. Even his
wrinkles had disappeared and his hair
grown brown; in fact, so thoroughly
transmogrifed was he by the time he
found himself at table. that no one
would have known him who bad seen
him an hour before.
He ate and drank as he had never
done before. deluded by the sweetest
dreams and beguiled by the loveliest
women.
Doctors and learned men from all
parts visited and consulted him, for his
erudition was profound and his knowl-
ed ge of languages unprecedented. The
Sultan caused thirty gold pistoles to be
drawn from the treasury and handed
him by the Seraskier of the palace for a
work of considerable merit by him on
"Shoes," now unfortunately lost.
Diplomas and decorations flowed in
upon him so thickly that he had to have
a room set apart for his archives.
In fact, he who, for upwards of
eighteen hundred and eighty years had
been a wanderer on the earth, now
lived the life of quiet, well-to-do citi-
zen of the Ottoman Empire, under Alb
dul-Hannid H., the thirty fifth SOW
ereign in male descent of the house of
Gilman, the founder of the empire and
the twenty-eight Sultan since the con-
quest of Constantinople.
(May his shadow never grow lessD
1t is alleged on good authority that,
from the evening of the day Ahasverus
was installed in his villa by the Bos-
phorus, he slept for forty-eight consec-
utive hours before he could be reused
to his new life of ease and luxury.
Meanwhile, the rightful owner of
this handsome villa had become an out
cast and fugitive on the face of the
earth.
Mahmoud, the dervish, to whom the
house and harem belonged, had fallen
asleep in the mosque while the Hegira
was being COMMUNICATED. Now Allah,
who regards this festival as one of the
most sacred in the year, was angry with
Mahmoud for doing off on such a day
in his holy place. The fight of the
prophet-which the Hegira recalls
was to be matched by another no less
memorable fight on the part of dervish
as q punishment for his remissness on
that occasion.
So, awakening from his nap, and
finding himself alone in the mosque,
Mahmoud rushed out. He hunted
about the hall for his boots, but, of
course, they were not to be found, hav-
ing been filched by Ahasverus. In a
dark corner, he discovered the mud
covered, blood-stained sandals of the
Wandering Jew, which he put on, hor-
rible as they were in order to get home.
At once a strange experience came
over him. Hitherto, being dropsical
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